Cyparissus

1565 · Print

May one see it?

Unknown: the museum keeps its counsel

Rijksmuseum

Amsterdam, Netherlands

The owner is known. Whether it is on view today, the museum does not say, and we were not trained to guess.

Source: The museum's own collection data

On the map Museum page

About the work

In the museum's own words — in Dutch

Cyparissus wordt door Apollo in een cipres verandert omdat hij treurt om de dood van zijn favoriete hert. Het hert dat door een pijl getroffen is ligt achter Cyparissus. Uit Cyparissus handen en haren groeien takken met bladeren. Uit zijn tenen groeien wortels.

Rijksmuseum

Particulars

Accession number: RP-P-1986-373

What it shows

Cyparissus changed into a cypress: when pining away for the loss of his favourite stag, Cyparissus the hunter, minion of Apollo, is changed into a cypress by the god (Ovid, Metamorphoses X 106)

In the catalog

Prints Renaissance 16th century

Sources

Rijksmuseum: the museum's own open data · fetched 7 days ago
Image: Rijksmuseum — public domain

Meanwhile, in the life of Cornelis Cort

The whole life

1560–1565 · Workplace
Northern Low Countries
1565–1566
Move to Venice, Living in Titian's House
In 1565–1566 Cort lived in Venice in the house of Titian, who immediately recognized his abilities and gave him his finest paintings to reproduce.
1565–1566 · Workplace
Venice
1566–1569 · Workplace
Rome
after 1567
Return to Italy: Venice, Bologna, Rome
Having returned from Italy to the Netherlands, Cort left again for Venice shortly after 1567, and from there traveled to Bologna and Rome, where he engraved after the paintings of the great masters of the time.
1567
Lampsonius's Letter to Titian
Cort's connection with Cock and Titian is illustrated by a letter of 1567 from Dominicus Lampsonius of Liège addressed to Titian, in which Cock is named as Cort's teacher.